Hoyer, who signed with the Cardinals on December 10, will get the starting nod at quarterback against the league’s fourth-ranked pass defense. While Sunday will mark his first career start under center, one ESPN Insider thinks the move is a logical one for Ken Whisenhunt and Co.

“I actually have seen a lot of Hoyer in a lot of preseason games with the New England Patriots, and I like what I saw,” Ron Jaworksi told Arizona Sports 620’s Burns & Gambo Thursday. “I just got done watching the Chicago game…and I thought Hoyer handled [the pressure put on by the Bears defense] pretty well.

“Obviously, he doesn’t fully understand the Cardinals’ system, where a player’s going to be or what the adjustments are, but I thought there was a look of an NFL quarterback.”

The look of an NFL quarterback has largely been missing with the Cardinals since Kevin Kolb went down with a season-ending injury in the team’s loss to the Buffalo Bills on October 14. Arizona’s offense is currently ranked last in the league in yards per game (263.1) and hasn’t recorded a passing touchdown since Week 9 in Green Bay.